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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • WWB: Against Comics by Jochen Gerner, translated from the...

    Rated Jul 14 • 7 reviews • arts • wordswithoutborders.org

    Against Comics
    in "Words Without Borders" by Jochen Gerner


    Against Comics




    Thanks to Renrutia for passing this along.

    Are comics art?

    The question begs to clarify what is intended by art. Jochen Gerner's ramblings are about comics in the art market. But any serious person would tell you that the art market is something different than art. The art market is where "whatever" is sold as art. But art is not whatever and thus the answer needs to be re-framed...




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    WWB: Against Comics by Jochen Gerner, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin

  • http://escapeintolife.com/wordpress?p=3

    Rated Jul 13 • 1 review • arts, images • escapeintolife.com

    Las Vegas
    in "Escape into life" by Lethe Bashar

    After getting kicked out of a halfway house in San Jose, California, Lethe takes a Greyhound bus to Vegas. He finds a youth hostel on the west side called The Backpacker's Inn. This Hotel California is refuge to a host of misfits and wanderlusts.

    Las Vegas Online Graphic Novel
    Escape into Life, Arts and Culture webzine based on the concept of "citizen journalism".



    Interesting webzine.




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    http://escapeintolife.com/wordpress?p=3

  • How art killed our culture | Art and design |...

    Rated Mar 06 2009 • 1 review • arts, art, reality, market, worldviews • guardian.co.uk

    How art killed our culture
    in The Guardian by Jonathan Jones

    All the shallowness of modern mass culture began in avant-garde art 40 years ago.

    What happened? How did art become the mirror of fraud?

    We're Warhol's ugly brood. Art has even fed the unsustainable appetites that are destroying the planet by constantly telling everyone cities are better than the countryside, culture more real than nature. It has become the enemy of truth, the murderer of decency.

    The modern world has screwed itself and art led the way.

    How art killed our culture
    Art as we know it is finished



    It's not art that killed late-modern culture, it's the logic of capital that used art as one of its vehicles at profit generation.

    It's a fact that while being used as a profit generation vehicle art died. It did not kill culture, for, it was dead before consumerism established its hegemony.

    Now we also have to be careful in our affirmation that art is dead. Art is only dead on the market because the market can't swallow art. It can only swallow something neutral or to say this otherwise something that is not containing profound truths about our reality. In other words the market consecrated acceptable and sterilized "interior decoration fashions"... But outside of the market, in real life, some artists were producing, perhaps some of the best artworks ever produced in history. It's a shame that such works are confined in the interiors of their creators.
    Perhaps Jonathan Jones could give a hand to the public at large by finding the pearls among contemporary artists? But is he able to distinguish between the wheat and the shaft?




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    How art killed our culture | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

  • http://www.panopticons.uk.net/Built2.html

    Rated Oct 27 2008 • 1 review • nature, music, arts, art • uk.net

    'Singing Ringing Tree'
    via Sya / Dreams In Digital

    Panopticons, funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Lancashire Economic Partnership (LEP), is a visionary scheme to create a unique series of 21st century landmarks across East Lancashire, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

    Burnley's Panopticon is sited at Crown Point, which on a clear day commands a spectacular panorama of East Lancashire, including a striking overview of the town of Burnley, with the famous Turf Moor football stadium at its centre.


    'Singing Ringing Tree'

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    The Singing, Ringing Tree

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    Singing Ringing Tree Burnley Lancashire

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    Panopticon

    This sculpture designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu is simply wonderful. Check the video and listen to the complaints and serenades of the winds.




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    http://www.panopticons.uk.net/Built2.html

  • If Martians curated an exhibition, what would it...

    Rated Mar 06 2008 • 1 review • arts, art, reality • guardian.co.uk

    If Martians put together an exhibition of Earth art, what would it contain?
    in The Guardian by Adrian Searle

    ... the Martian view of things is curiously narrow. Perhaps it is the humans doing their bidding who are having the problem. Many people, including critics and curators, have as much problem with art as your average alien. I, for one, am happy to admit that I do not know exactly what art is: I know what is called art, but that's not the same thing. Talking about what's good and bad art gets us into even more trouble.

    Art performs different functions, and not only at different times and in different places. We squabble and quibble and fight over it, beat each other over the head with it, and shove it in places it was never meant to go. Art appears to be central to our various human cultures, but to frequently masquerade as marginal, uncategorisable, and even useless.

    If Martians put together an exhibition of Earth art, what would it contain?
    The curse of the blockbuster


    Meteorite Lands on Buckingham Palace, 1998, by Cornelia Parker. 54 x 69 cm. Maple boxed frame map of London revealing burn mark left by a meteorite
    Photograph: British Council

    I don't believe one instant that aliens reaching earth could be so dumb as humans not to know the function that art exercises in societies. At least Adrian Searle is honest to recognize that ".... I do not know exactly what art is: I know what is called art, but that's not the same thing." But an alien specie that reaches earth could not be so ignorant, for, without art it could not have survived the negative consequences of the rational and mechanistic thought otherwise necessary to devise the tools and machinery to reach earth.

    If humanity is to survive the totalitarian destructiveness of modernity I believe that this can only occur by solving the question "what is art". This question reflects on who we are and how we are interrelated with all life and everything under the whole in which we are such tiny particles...

    If interested to read more about my take on "what is art" click here:
    Artsense




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    If Martians curated an exhibition, what would it contain? Adrian Searle finds out | Art and design | The Guardian

  • The Graying of Modernism - artnet Magazine

    Rated Feb 15 2008 • 1 review • arts, art, painters, modernity • artnet.com

    THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM
    in Artnet by DONALD KUSPIT about "Jasper Johns: Gray," NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.

    From Impressionism onward modernism has moved steadily away from reality testing into the deceptive wonderland of hallucination.(3) It has moved away from the real thing and towards the perverse reality of the hallucinated thing -- into the bizarrely timeless and spaceless limbo of "vision" where things are real and unreal simultaneously. What began as an epistemophilic adventure ends in epistemophobic stalemate, which is what I think we have in Johnsu2019 engulfing grayness.
    ...
    Suspending the reality principle, it becomes a realm of dubious pleasure -- pseudo-esthetic pleasure. It also loses moral value, however indirectly; if white and black have moral significance, as Kandinsky and innumerable others have noted, then mixing them together to form neutral gray renders art morally indifferent.
    ...
    Modernism was re-playing itself like a broken record, squeezing every last bit of enigma and insinuation out of the medium.
    ...
    I thought I was looking at the suicide of art in process.

    THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM


    Jasper Johns. Map. 1962. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles


    Jasper Johns. 0-9. 1959-62. collection of Martin Z. Margulies

    The search for a reality that the eye can't see was at the heart of the artistic adventure of the artists-thinkers of high modernity (1910-1930).

    They were unfortunately followed by artists who never understood the artistic quest of high modernity and who then all naturally concluded the experience of modernity in the one way street of "whatever is art" which unmistakably is a total failure or the "Death of art" as Kuspit posits in other works of his.




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    The Graying of Modernism - artnet Magazine

  • Iggi Art

    Rated Feb 06 2008 • 6 reviews • arts, visual arts, artsense digital variations • blogspot.com

    Iggi Art
    on iggiart.blogspot.com

    Techniques and media: Basically this is black ink on white paper, which is then armed, mixed and digitally retouched. Each paint is 1 meter by 73 centimeters or so.

    My illustrations are based or inspired by artists such as HR Giger, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Akira art (of Katsuhiro Otomo), Moebiuos, and Roberto Matta.

    Visual art works by iggiart







    Great works. Iggi's approach is similar to my digital variations. For reference see Digital variations versus fractals.





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    Iggi Art

  • Eliphante

    Rated Feb 05 2008 • 5 reviews • architecture, arts • eliphante.org

    Eliphante art and architecture
    in Eliphante.org

    Any fool can hire an architect to draw up a plan for a house, but it takes a truly inspired fool - which is to say, an artist - to start building and see where the earth and driftwood and shards of broken pottery take him.
    In 1979 Michael [Kahn] & Leda [Livant] moved themselves and their paintings from Provincetown MA to rural land in Cornville Arizona. There they began the first mixed media structure which they later called Eliphante. They continued building and sculpting on the 3 acre environment.

    Eliphante art and architecture
    A flickr photo set.
    Exploring Eliphante NYT slideshow






    All are David Kadlubowski photos for The New York Times

    Congratulations guys you made your dream come true and how beautiful it is indeed.




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    Eliphante